I couldn't help it, I had to see if I could do it! I've read they are smart and I'd agree with that, but trainable too?! This video was taken tonight so it's dark and I apologize, but thought you'd get a kick out of it!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
doing a happy dance! hoping to make it rain! lol!
My latest acquisition! I'm SO happy to have this rain barrel, you have no idea! My sister-in-law and her husband, besides being such caring wonderful people are creative and industrious! They are always building things, like a beautiful home, a cozy camp, pretty much anything those two can build and I SO admire that. They built this rain barrel too! The red thing on the bottom is to hook up my hose to! It's got window screening over the top to keep the leaves and bugs out. Now I've got the difficult task of finding the perfect, most useful place for it, as there are many!Thank you guys so much for this, it will most certainly be well used!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
stopping to enjoy the beauty
While out picking blackberries the kids and I got to watch these two beauties enjoying the flower.konks for Colorado
I first started canning and putting things up when Faith was 6 months old; we had just moved from Colorado and I was anxious to learn how, Mom was more than eager to teach me, but I think it was more because she could spend time with her "grandbaby." I started with strawberry jam in June because it was the first thing in season. I'll tell you, there are not too many things better than tasting jam you made in June in the sweltering heat, during the middle of a snowstorm in January tucked in with loved ones. Yum! I moved on to pickles and eventually beans, sauce, tomatoes, pears and applesauce, once I knew how the sky was the limit. I've kept doing it ever since, I find it rewarding. A friend of mine in Colorado saw the picture in this post and told me she'd like to raid my pantry! We emailed back and forth about it and suffice it to say...
...these babies are headed to Colorado! Why are they called konks you ask, well, that was what the kids called them when they were starting to talk, I have no idea how it came to be konks, but it is what it is. Now every time we make pickles, I think if them when they were younger sitting beside me on the stool helping pack the jars to make "konks."
...these babies are headed to Colorado! Why are they called konks you ask, well, that was what the kids called them when they were starting to talk, I have no idea how it came to be konks, but it is what it is. Now every time we make pickles, I think if them when they were younger sitting beside me on the stool helping pack the jars to make "konks."
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
good quote
"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."
Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, August 1, 2010
quilt show causes identity crisis
See a pattern here?!
Mom, Faith, Andrew and I went to a quilt show yesterday and once again were in amazement at these beautiful hand crafted works of art, so inspiring!We've been going since I was pushing the kids around in a double stroller. Not the place most kids would want to spend the day, but my children look forward to this yearly. So anyway, I got home, transferred the pictures I took to my computer and scanned back through them and thought hummm there is definitely a theme going on here. Do you see what I see?! Mind you this is just a small sampling of the pictures I took, (there were over 100, not too bad seeing as there were over 800 quilts!) Apparently I like quilts that feature squares, squares on point and stars in blues, greens and browns. Ugh I had no idea, but it jumped out to me as I looked back through the pictures. All my life I've been told I'm "unique," "bold," "eclectic," "twisted," "out-there," what have you, and loved every minute of 'freaking people out, being unconventional, going against the flow' but this made me question that. Am I as 'twisted' as I've been told? are people just saying that? what makes me drawn to this one particular style? Am I dare I say predictable? Gak! I hope not! Ugh! Well there it is, my freak out identity crisis, it is what it is I guess. I'm comfortable with who I am regardless whether I'm predictable or not and I suppose that is what matters.
one of my favorites! (above)
Not anything I'd ever try, but SO beautiful and meaningful! No this is not a painting, it's an actual pieced together quilt!
LOVED the sentiment of this! Having said that or thought it on occasion!
Would really like to make a quilt similar to this, only incorporate more of the farm.
Stunning and mostly appliqued!
Maybe a combo of the farmers market quilt and this one, loved the Nubians! Very well done!
Mom, Faith, Andrew and I went to a quilt show yesterday and once again were in amazement at these beautiful hand crafted works of art, so inspiring!We've been going since I was pushing the kids around in a double stroller. Not the place most kids would want to spend the day, but my children look forward to this yearly. So anyway, I got home, transferred the pictures I took to my computer and scanned back through them and thought hummm there is definitely a theme going on here. Do you see what I see?! Mind you this is just a small sampling of the pictures I took, (there were over 100, not too bad seeing as there were over 800 quilts!) Apparently I like quilts that feature squares, squares on point and stars in blues, greens and browns. Ugh I had no idea, but it jumped out to me as I looked back through the pictures. All my life I've been told I'm "unique," "bold," "eclectic," "twisted," "out-there," what have you, and loved every minute of 'freaking people out, being unconventional, going against the flow' but this made me question that. Am I as 'twisted' as I've been told? are people just saying that? what makes me drawn to this one particular style? Am I dare I say predictable? Gak! I hope not! Ugh! Well there it is, my freak out identity crisis, it is what it is I guess. I'm comfortable with who I am regardless whether I'm predictable or not and I suppose that is what matters.
one of my favorites! (above)
Not anything I'd ever try, but SO beautiful and meaningful! No this is not a painting, it's an actual pieced together quilt!
LOVED the sentiment of this! Having said that or thought it on occasion!
Would really like to make a quilt similar to this, only incorporate more of the farm.
Stunning and mostly appliqued!
Maybe a combo of the farmers market quilt and this one, loved the Nubians! Very well done!
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